Black hole sensitivity

The ellipse is for the human a shape permanently ambiguous. Even when we view an ellipse head-on, our mind wants to interpret its elongated edges and stretched axes as a translation and distortion of a circle through three-dimensional space before us. An ellipse is a reminder that we carry our horizons with us always, that we only ever capture a circle as it slips and stretches toward our personal black hole, the vanishing point of perspective.

(the point) where thinking becomes seeing

Bound together by our need to navigate: we're all a bit lost, we're all on the way

Now: Turner colour experiments on view at Tate Britain

"I have always been interested in the idea that abstraction can be welcoming; Turner’s palette, which he formulated according to the hues of the natural world, is very recognisable. I was keen to explore this type of abstract matter, which, at the same time, feels familiar. It seemed like a natural step to begin an experimental study by abstracting the prismatic colours of Turner’s palette and filtering them into a new, utopian colour theory. It is within our sense of abstraction that we are able to re-evaluate our sense of presence."

Olafur Eliasson on J. M. W. Turner

Now: No nights in summer, no days in winter, 1994, at the Gwangju Biennale
On view until 9 November

View from the studio: Turner colour experiments in progress

Active memory: from the burning archive

Your uncertain archive!: drift, explore, connect – embrace uncertainty

"I wanted the chance to allow for a higher degree of negotiability, and also that little bit of discomfort in being slightly lost sometimes. Not too lost but lost in the sense of having to work a little harder to find your path.... We're so used to commodified home pages, everything is about predictability, in order to make people feel safe."

Olafur Eliasson on Your uncertain archive.

Movement microscope, 2011, on view as part of Riverbed, at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark

Movement microscope, a film by Olafur Eliasson, depicts a normal day at Studio Olafur Eliasson, with one major difference: Eliasson invited 'movement specialists' (street performers, mimes, dancers) to come perform a kind of spatio-temporal intervention throughout the studio during the work day.
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Movement microscope is now on view as part of Riverbed, at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, until 4 January, 2015.

Watch the film online here:

View from the studio

Now: Know-how kaleidoscopes, 2014, Kabelparken, Copenhagen

Now: Gravity stairs, 2014, on view at Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea until 28 December

How does it feel to keep balance?
How does it feel to lose it?

Model room, 2003, now on view at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark

Riverbed is now open at Louisiana, Museum of Modern Art, Denmark